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In Europe, all major manufacturers advertise that they support and recommend "Windows XP Professionnal" as the best and only OS that that would enable their potentiel customers to take full advanrtage of the new stunning technologies they have developed for their hardware (for example, Sony, Hewlett Packard and many others). It's only after I've made my mind and decided to dedicate a good amount of money to the purchase of a very powerful Intel server (SE7501HG2 "Harlingen" DP Xeon Server Platform with dual processors, 3.066 GHz 512 KB FSB533, along with 2 GB DDR PC266 RegECC and a couple of a couple of Ultrastar U320 68 Pin, 15,000 rpm) I came to realize at my own expense that Intel has been already focusing on Windows Server 2003 and other non-Windows OS but they did not even test Windows XP professionnal. My reseller and his technical team are trying for two days to make this machine work properly and now even the Intel people are bombarding them with all sorts of drivers, firmwares and BIOS Upgrades for these already known isssues by them . Today, I copied ans pasted the following from the Intel Wrb Site : "Intel Server Board SE7501HG2 may contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request." The nowaday generalized policy seems to be : "sell before finish testing, we'lle make it up later by means of patches, drivers and firwares !" And nobody seems to be chocked !
 
Paul,

If you are purchasing "a very powerful Intel server" why are you planning on
running Windows XP Professional ?
If you need the power of the CPUs you have specified for CAB or other high
end work, would you not have been better advised to purchase a Workstation
product such as one of the HP products with either dual Xeon, Pentium IV or
Itanium II CPUs and lots of memory and disk capacity etc?

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Paul said:
In Europe, all major manufacturers advertise that they support and
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recommend "Windows XP Professionnal" as the best and only OS that that would
enable their potentiel customers to take full advanrtage of the new stunning
technologies they have developed for their hardware (for example, Sony,
Hewlett Packard and many others). It's only after I've made my mind and
decided to dedicate a good amount of money to the purchase of a very
powerful Intel server (SE7501HG2 "Harlingen" DP Xeon Server Platform with
dual processors, 3.066 GHz 512 KB FSB533, along with 2 GB DDR PC266 RegECC
and a couple of a couple of Ultrastar U320 68 Pin, 15,000 rpm) I came to
realize at my own expense that Intel has been already focusing on Windows
Server 2003 and other non-Windows OS but they did not even test Windows XP
professionnal. My reseller and his technical team are trying for two days to
make this machine work properly and now even the Intel people are bombarding
them with all sorts of drivers, firmwares and BIOS Upgrades for these
already known isssues by them . Today, I copied ans pasted the following
from the Intel Wrb Site : "Intel Server Board SE7501HG2 may contain design
defects or errors known as errata which may cause the product to deviate
from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on
request." The nowaday generalized policy seems to be : "sell before finish
testing, we'lle make it up later by means of patches, drivers and firwares
!" And nobody seems to be chocked !
 
Greetings --

Well, why should Intel have bothered testing a workstation
operating system (WinXP) on what is clearly designed to be a server
platform? It sounds to me like you deliberately walked into this
situation with both eyes wide shut. The idea, when purchasing new
hardware, is to verify its suitability _before_ making the purchase.

Bruce Chambers

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Paul said:
In Europe, all major manufacturers advertise that they support and
Click to expand...
recommend "Windows XP Professionnal" as the best and only OS that that
would enable their potentiel customers to take full advanrtage of the
new stunning technologies they have developed for their hardware (for
example, Sony, Hewlett Packard and many others). It's only after I've
made my mind and decided to dedicate a good amount of money to the
purchase of a very powerful Intel server (SE7501HG2 "Harlingen" DP
Xeon Server Platform with dual processors, 3.066 GHz 512 KB FSB533,
along with 2 GB DDR PC266 RegECC and a couple of a couple of Ultrastar
U320 68 Pin, 15,000 rpm) I came to realize at my own expense that
Intel has been already focusing on Windows Server 2003 and other
non-Windows OS but they did not even test Windows XP professionnal. My
reseller and his technical team are trying for two days to make this
machine work properly and now even the Intel people are bombarding
them with all sorts of drivers, firmwares and BIOS Upgrades for these
already known isssues by them . Today, I copied ans pasted the
following from the Intel Wrb Site : "Intel Server Board SE7501HG2 may
contain design defects or errors known as errata which may cause the
product to deviate from published specifications. Current
characterized errata are available on request." The nowaday
generalized policy seems to be : "sell before finish testing, we'lle
make it up later by means of patches, drivers and firwares !" And
nobody seems to be chocked !
 
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